How many of you are like me? You pray for yourself and other people and things and when you don’t see anything happen you get discouraged and want to give up? Purpose for prayer is not so much to get things from God, but for us to know God. (A mentor I had long ago quoted…
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant…
Have you ever just sat quietly with the Lord not saying anything and just trying to center your thoughts on being aware of His Presence? (Is that even possible?) Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, my hope is from Him. Does that seem like a waste of time… just sitting with…
“Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” – Oswald Chambers Do you tend to rush out in the morning to tackle the things that are important and must be done, without taking time to pray? Remember the battle between the Children of Israel and the Amalekites in Exodus 17? …
Being messed up people, do you doubt that the Father desires communion with you? Mark 10:14 …Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Do you have kids…anyway, you’ve been a kid. If your child needed something from you or just wanted to…
“The essence of prayer does not consist in asking God for something but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion. Prayer is continual abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want; it is rather the desire for…
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” Consider how Jesus demonstrated this claim in a few short chapters in Mark: Teaching – Mk. 1:22 They were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority,…
Recall: The great invitation by God to all through the finished work of Jesus is, “Come.” Our needs are met when we come to Jesus. In Him alone is real life and life overflowing. John 6:37b the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. Phil.4:19 And my God will supply all…
The great invitation by God to all through the finished work of Jesus is, “Come.” Isaiah 55:1 “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” Matt. 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary…